Lawrence "Kris" Parker (KRS-One) Quotes

Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

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• We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

  

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• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

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• More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

  

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• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
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• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
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• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

  

  Yael Stone
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• Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
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• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  

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• The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

  

  Park Geun-hye
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• 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

  

  Pamela Sargent
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• The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

  

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• People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!

  

  Wendy Liebman
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• Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
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• When I am working, I have two shows on Saturday, and when I wake up, and it's a lovely day, I just cry. I'm joking: I love my job.

  

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• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

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• You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

  

  John Francis Daley
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• There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
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• Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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